Supercool Ultimate Bumblebee Transformers Toy

Updated on June 23, 2011

In summer 2007, many of us were introduced to a super cool robot named Bumblebee.
He's from the movie, Transformers,
and one of the Autobots,
the good guys. Bumblebee and the other Transformers came to us from the
planet Cybertron where they've been battling the Decepticons, the evil
Transformers.

Here on Earth, in order to remain anonymous and to
avoid scaring humans, the Transformers had to assume the guise of
something machinery such as common cars, trucks, and airplanes. As their
popular 80s tagline said, "Transformers, robots in disguise."

For
Bumblebee, way back in the 80s cartoon, he was running around as a
Volkswagen Beetle. He was a bug. In the movies, Transformers and
the sequel Revenge of the Fallen, he had a slight change. He ran
around as a 1977 Camaro at first, fit as a teen's first car, and then
upgraded to a 2010 model after Megan Fox's character called him a "piece
of crap Camaro." According to Wikipedia, Michael Bay insisted on the
change because there was too much of a Herbie the love bug vibe and
wanted something different.

I recall a little bit about Bumblebee from the 80's cartoon and much
like the movie, he's teamed up with a human kid in many of his ventures.
Bumblebee's small size for a robot allowed him to sneak around all
kinds of places with the human kid.

In the movies, he's paired up
again with a teenage boy, Sam Witwicky. He was assigned to guard Sam
from the Decepticons. Apparently, Sam held the key to the location of
the All Spark, an energy source that both Autobots and Decepticons were
seeking.

Bumblebee had a lot of screen time in the movies. He
was practically in all the scenes with Sam. And he had his own showdown
with the Decepticon Barricade in a Mustang vs Camaro duel, just like
during the days of pony cars.

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